Nora Illi

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Nora Illi (born on April 3, 1984 in Uster , Canton of Zurich ; died on March 23, 2020 in Bremgarten near Bern ) was a Swiss woman who converted to Islam ; As a member of the board of the Islamic Central Council of Switzerland , she occasionally caused heated public discussions with her views.

Life

Illi was born in Uster as the daughter of a German psychotherapist and a Swiss social worker. The parents divorced. Illi dropped out of high school and trained as a polygraph .

She was baptized a Catholic at her own request . As a teenager she was active in the punk scene and converted to Sunni Islam at the age of 18 . In public she wore the niqab face veil . She headed the “Department for Women's Affairs” at the Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (IZRS). In this role she also appeared on television programs. An appearance on the talk show Anne Will in autumn 2016 sparked controversy and discussions about whether and how radical opinions should be represented on talk shows.

Nora Illi was married to the IT specialist Qaasim Illi, who also worked at the IZRS, and had six children.

She died on March 23, 2020 at the age of 35 as a result of a long-standing illness of breast cancer.

Positions

Illi advocated polygyny , plural marriage in which a man can have several wives. She rejected general polygamy , which can apply to both sexes. In November 2016, there was a scandal on the talk show Anne Will when quotes from her were shown that were interpreted as war propaganda for the terrorist militia Islamic State . Illi then received several criminal charges ; the public prosecutor's office in Hamburg closed all preliminary investigations in February 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Most famous burqa wearer in Switzerland, Nora Illi, died at the age of 35. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Katia Murmann: Behind the veil. In: Switzerland on Sunday . June 25, 2011, accessed November 8, 2016 .
  3. ^ Board of IZRS. izrs.ch, accessed on November 8, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Marcel Gyr: Veiled Nora Illi on “Anne Will”: Federal Prosecutor's Office is irritated - The appearance of the veiled Nora Illi on Sunday evening on public television in Germany also caused irritation at the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office , NZZ 8.11.16
  5. ↑ a b Reiner Stadler: Nora Illi in "Anne Will": Islamist mummies and media helpers - A Swiss woman with a burqa annoys the German media arena. Are editorial offices unable to learn? , NZZ November 7, 2016
  6. ↑ Arno Frank: "Anne Will" guest Nora Illi in the Nikab: The human catcher in the talk show. In: Spiegel Online . November 7, 2016, accessed May 16, 2020 .
  7. ^ Sibilla Bondolfi: Why Islam? Three converts tell. Swissinfo , June 30, 2016, accessed November 8, 2016 .
  8. ↑ IZRS: Nora Illi died at the age of 35. In: izrs.ch. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Interview: Katia Murmann; Photos: Remo Nägeli: The Swiss Nora Illi (30) explains why her husband is allowed to have two or more women: "Polygamy has many advantages" - Blick . ( blick.ch [accessed on November 7, 2016]).
  10. ↑ Preliminary investigations for Nora Illi appearance at Anne Will discontinued. Münchner Merkur from February 9, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Illi, Nora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss polygraph and women's representative in the Islamic Central Council Switzerland (IZRS)
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Uster , Canton of Zurich
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 2020
Place of death Bremgarten near Bern